The house seemed awfully empty and terribly quiet once our ‘playmates’ had left and I just didn’t feel up to fighting with the fly shuttle box on the AVL.
So, consulting the handy job list, I was reminded that I needed to weave some samples of the yarn I will be offering for sale (some of it is already listed in my Art Fire store http://LauraFry.artfire.com)
The skeins of painted rayon slub have about 800 yards per skein – too much for a warp for one scarf, not enough for two. However I also have some painted Tencel from Yarns Plus in the right colour, so I coned off a skein of each and wound a 7 meter long warp using the two yarns together. A 7 meter long warp should easily give me 3 scarves.
Since this was for sample scarves I wasn’t too fussed about exactly how wide the warp would be and simply kept winding until I ran out of yarn – 9 inches plus 4 ends wide.
The warp is set at 24 epi and for the first scarf I’m using Bambu 7 for weft.
The threading was a straight twill with Wall of Troy every once in a while. I’m not really sure why so many people say you must use only plain weave with variegated yarns. I think fancy twills look quite nice, too. 🙂
Not sure what else I’ll use for weft for the other two scarves. I’m toying with trying a 1450 rayon chenille for one as I’ve several shades of blue that would probably look nice, too. If I use rayon chenille, I will use plain weave, though. Will see where the Muse leads me.
Tomorrow is lace – I’ll let my Lace Ladies know the article in WeaveZine is published as they beta tested the pricking for it. 🙂 http://www.weavezine.com
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